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Re: mozilla-* / myspell-* and their Provides: / Suggests:



Hi,

Alexander Sack wrote:
> |
> | a) mozilla-browser, mozilla-browser-snapshot, mozilla-thunderbird
> | and openoffice.org provide myspell-spellchecker
> |
> | b) the myspell-* packages recommend myspell-spellchecker
> |
> 
> what will you get from this??
> OK. You will be enabled to get all myspell enabled applications. If
> this is in general desirable, than such a policy would make sense.

That is my opinion ;)

> Personally I never felt the need to get all myspell-spellchecker
> enabled applications, but maybe I am wrong & the "provides
> myspell-spellchecker" thing may be a good idea.

Well, you are seeing it from the "wrong side"; you maintain a
myspell-spellchecker enabled application and thinking from that side
(I do, too).

But what I am currently doing is thinking from the perspective of the
myspell-* dictionary packages for which it makes sense to recommend
the myspell-spellchecking-featured applications as much
as the ispell dictionaries depend on ispell. A Depends is superfluous
here since it then would install all 4 big packages which can't be the
sense ;)

Don't you think?

Grüße/Regards,

René
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